Vierges et vampires (1971)

Director:

Jean Rollin

Writer:

Jean Rollin (writer)

Release Date:

August 1973 (USA)

Genre:

Horror

Tagline:

Two young girls...trapped..with no escape! Forced to submit to the Horrors of the Pit!

Plot:

A vampire lures beautiful young women to his castle in Europe. |

Plot Keywords:

Vampire | Lesbian Sex | Gothic | Bondage | Rape

Cast

Marie-Pierre Castel	...	Marie
Mireille Dargent	...	Michelle
Philippe Gasté	...	Frédéric
Dominique
Louise Dhour	...	Louise
Michel Delesalle
Antoine Mosin
Agnès Petit
Olivier François
Dominique Toussaint	...	Erica
Agnes Jacquet
Anne-Rose Kurra
Paul Bisciglia	...	L'homme au vélo

Also Known As:

Caged Vampires
Caged Virgins (USA)
Crazed Virgins
Dungeon of Terror
Requiem for a Vampire
Requiem pour un vampire
Sex Vampires
The Crazed Vampire
Virgins and Vampires
Virgins and the Vampires (USA)

Runtime:

95 min | Australia:69 min | USA:65 min | USA:83 min (English dubbed version)

Country:

France

Language:

French

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.66 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono

Certification:

Australia:R | UK:18 | USA:R

Company:

Les Films ABC

Goofs:

Revealing mistakes: At the beginning, when the clowns are pouring the gas over the dead friend, you can see him move several times, including twitches and breathing.

Movie Connections:

Featured in Celluloid Horror (2004)

a Lesbians vampire tale

Marie and Michelle are two girls dressed as clowns and on the run from someone with a grudge, this is at least where the film begins with a shoot 'em up car chase through the french countryside. There male companion gets killed in the crossfire and the girls decide to hide out in a seemingly deserted Château where they indulge themselves in some Lesbian sex before they discover they are not alone .The last surviving Vampire and his followers want to enrol the two girls in to the realms of the living dead, but not before they get the girls to lure some fresh blood to the château with the promise of sex.

Rollin's imagery is superb,two wonderfully colourful clowns wandering through barley is quite an exquisite scene,in this often ponderously slow film, the vampires look cool except for some dodgy fangs, there isn't too much of a plot really and I can readily see why some would hate Rollin's work. Rollin seems to my eyes to have his own unique language of film which he sticks to till the bitter end. My main problem with the film is that it was cut to bits, The DVD sleeve said 88mins where in actuality it was a paltry 76mins,IMDB says 95mins so I'm not too sure what I've missed and how badly the continuity was hampered by this, a lot I would guess.Not my last Rollin film,I'll certainly watch some more